motion

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Gestures & gesturing
air punch
air quotes
bat
beckon
bird
blow someone a kissphrase
flag something/someone down
flip
flip someone off
flip/give someone the birdidiom
flourish
non-verbal
non-verbally
peace sign
pump someone's handidiom
shake
shrug
signing
tongue
wink

gesture | American Dictionary

gesture
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʒes·tʃər/

gesturenoun[C] (MOVEMENT)

a movement of the body, hands, arms, or head to express an idea or feeling:
He made a rude gesture to the crowd after his tennis match.

gesturenoun[C] (SYMBOLIC ACT)

an action that expresses your feelings or intentions, although it might have little practical effect:
Her warm thank-you note was a nice gesture.

gesture

verb[ I ]us/ˈdʒes·tʃər/
When I asked where the children were, she gestured toward the beach.

Examples of gesture

gesture
Most likely, phonological plans and articulatory gestures are wired in primary motor and premotor cortices in the inferior frontal lobe.
The oboe, on the other hand, offers very little for the eye, though some players attempt to compensate for this with grand gestures.
Because they cannot claim real property on their findings, they may attach their names to them as a gesture of symbolic ownership for their work.
They were visible physical gestures (illustrated, for example, by keyboard fingering-methods).
Additionally, in related utterances, the adults spoke directly to the child as evidenced by their chosen words, eye gaze, body orientation, and gestures.
For this reason, other responses that infants provided - gestures and utterances - provided important information regarding their genuine level of sophistication in absent reference comprehension.
Pointing gestures and responses, yes\o gestures and responses, imitations, unintelligible utterances, and utterances that included a participant that was not visible were excluded.
There is evidence to suggest that forms transcribed as simultaneous or sequentially ordered oral and laryngeal gestures may in fact represent unreleased plosive forms.
We now need to reintegrate the gesture information that we removed in the projection step before recognition.
Parents also directed children's attention by combining verbal communication with gestures.
However, the distribution of gesture+speech combinations differed for caregiver and child.
The texts perpetually gesture towards a moment of fulfilment that remains deferred, when their latent significance would unfurl itself in a millennial revelation.
Most studies of language acquisition have relied on tape-recordings but these don't contain information about gestures or gaze.
She acknowledges her inferior position by gesture, movement and posture, knowing that her deference and submissiveness are her best defences at the early stages.
Often it has been simply a gesture of tact towards the feelings, however bigoted, of others, whether friends, family or colleagues.
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Collocations withgesture

gesture

These are words often used in combination with gesture.

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deictic gesture
First, a command which requires an active deictic gesture to provide the referent.
dramatic gesture
Here is only one example, notable for combining appropriation of the opponents' dramaticgesture, use of an overlay, and the forgetting, at the climactic moment, of a telegraph wire.
empty gesture
Policy without financial resources is just an emptygesture.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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